Residents share destruction of Ventura County Fire

Residents in Santa Paula, Ventura and Ojai are sharing images on social media of the Thomas Fire, also known as the Ventura County Fire and Santa Paula Fire, raging across the west side of Ventura County.

#ThomasFire@vcstar Donations pouring into shelter at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. More needed as evacuations still underway. Shelters also located @ Nordhoff High, Oxnard College Gym and Santa Paula Community Center.

VCFD says that due to the intermittent power outages (and some permanent outages) in the area last night, pumping systems were inoperable. Some hydrants (unclear how many) couldn’t get water pumped to them because there was no power. #thomasfire